“… [I]n the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.”
Patrick McGrath
Archive for the ‘Caja Bennwik’ Tag
Grotesquerie
Competition
One of the women on the “evening shift” at a local House of Scarlet Happiness ….
… discovers that she has someone new on the shift with her ….
And it does not make her happy, as “co-workers” cut into her profit margin ….
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I’m wearing:
- Head: Akeruka Monika 2.5 Bento
- Body and feet: Maitreya Lara 4.1
- Skin: Fallen Gods Pure Ivory
- Eyes IKON Sovereign (Passion)
- Hair: Amacci Nami (blue)
- Hands: Vista ProHands
- Nails: Absolut Vendetta Elisa nails
- Outfit (including boots): r2 seiga (blue) (available at current round of Collabor88) (other outfit also by r2, available at main store)
- Accessories: Mandala Tensei ear cuffs, ring and collar; kunst Diva cigarette holder
- Eyeshadow and lipstick: Lilith in Chains Neo-N (Akeruka, slot 4)
Photographed at Tiramisu, Cocoon role-playing region (Japan Rose)
Hallowe’en 2017 — Seeking a Pleasurable Night
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I’m wearing:
- Head: Akeruka Monika 2.5 Bento
- Body and feet: Maitreya Lara 4.1
- Skin: Fallen Gods Pure (Ivory)
- Eyes: IKON Sovereign eyes (Quicksilver)
- Hair: Violator Rien ne va plus hair (Platinum)
- Outfit and boots: r2 kanna (purchased as separates at Collabor88)
- Jewelry: Mandala Haramita suite (earrings, bangles, necklace and choker)
- Gloves: L’Emporio Long Bento Gloves
- All makeup by Zibska
Sugar Pop!
I discovered this exhibition at LEA9 while searching for a place to pose. This area, put together by Suzen JeweL, shows ideas from her creativity, including song lines engraved into the ground at several spots. It’s colorful, and surreal enough to fit the costume I’m modeling.
I don’t know what this says about me, but I love a lot of the vinyl goodies from r2, which I usually pick up at Collabor88. Harper and I chose r2 when we started putting together the look for Caja, a character from a story I’m working on. I gotta say I’ve fallen in love with Caja’s half-alien, half-elegant, half-demonic style. (Wait, that’s 150%, isn’t it? LOL)
This outfit comes from the current Collabor88. I left off the boots that come with it, though, because Caja likes ultra-platform heels, and the boots made for the suit (separate purchase) weren’t tall enough. Lucky for me, there’s other shoe stores who’ve got sole, and these boots from Moda were in my Inventory.
I’d also like to find more places — any places, really — who are making new “extreme” hair. Fortunately, Griddie’s hair from several years ago is still on the Marketplace, and this Lily hairstyle from my first time in front of the camera had a platinum shade.
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I’m wearing:
- Head: Akeruka Monika 2.5 (Bento)
- Body and feet: Maitreya Lara 4.1
- Skin: Fallen Gods Pure Ivory (various appliers)
- Hands: Vista ProHands 2
- Nails: Formanails Stiletto nails
- Eyes: IKON Sovereign eyes (Quicksilver)
- Hair: Gesamtkunstwerk “Griddie” Lily (Platinum)
- Outfit r2 kyo (style A, red) (Maitreya only) (Collabor88)
- Boots: Moda Roxanne
- Jewelry:
- Mandala Tensei suite (cuffs, ear cuffs, hand chains, rings, choker, necklace and tikka headdress)
- shanghai Gode suite (earrings and headdress) (Ocean; stiff gacha)
- Makeup:
- Eyeshadow: Unknown, but several Zibska possibilities
- Lashes: SlackGirl AKLa-A01 tintable lashes (Akeruka)
- Lipstick: Zibska Callisto (Omega) (slot 4)
Tholosa, the Witch-queen
October’s here! Time to start getting in gear for Halloween, and I’ve got just the thing here. I was going to just publish these on Flickr, but at least a few of them are pretty decent; so I’ll do the same thing here as I did on there, publish them with text beneath to explain each scene in my story. It’s definitely a first for me, I’m not sure what Harper would have to say about this one. But if she can publish her stuff on here, so can I, and she’s been encouraging me to. You get to judge how I do.
Fair warning disclosure — there’s a lot of large pictures here. Have patience if it takes a little for them to load, please.
You can see the entire original collection in full size in the album on Flickr (aside from several I’m adding in here to help bulk out the collection, or that I reshot with Conan to improve things).
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Tholosa the Exalted, the Witch-queen of the Empire of Oshor Chih — known not as The Exalted by her enemies, but as Tholosa of the Grave — takes her ease in her palace’s apartments, beneath a statue of one of the strange gods she worships. Even in the gloom of her rooms, this strange woman, who has conquered and absorbed into her empire kingdom after kingdom, glows with a shell of power. This encourages her unlettered slaves to believe in her as a goddess, and puts to use the undesirable effect of all the sorcerous protections she has cast about her in self-defense.
